Question: Mackintosh Inc is eng aged in the design, developmen t and marketing of personal computers (PCs), media devices and portable digital music players. The company

Mackintosh Inc is engaged in the design, development and marketing of personal computers (PCs), media devices and portable digital music players. The company offers a portfolio of products comprising Macintosh (Mac) computing systems, the iPad line of portable digital music and video players, iPhone handsets and iPad portable multimedia and computing devices. Macintosh also sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third party digital content and applications. The company sells its products worldwide through retail stores online stores, direct sales force, third party cellular (mobile phone) network carriers, wholesalers, retailers and value added resellers. Macintosh is headquartered in Maryland, Washington DC and employs 76,100 people, including 72,800 full time equivalent employees and 3,300 full-time equivalent temporary employees and contractor. The company recorded revenues of US$156,509 million during the fiscal year ended September 2020 (FY2020), an increase of 44.6% over FY2019. The operating profit of the company was US$55,241million during FY2020, an increase of 63.5% over FY2019. The net Profit was US41.73 million in FY2020, an increase of 61% over FY2019. Distributors in supply chain of Macintosh experienced a lot of challenges in dealing with local manufacturers and therefore prefer dealing with international partners. Mr. T. Jackson, one of the lead distributors in the downstream of computer supplies in Netherlands has contacted you to indicate his intention to start his distribution business with Macintosh Inc in international supply chain. Management of Macintosh has started experiencing some risks with its international businesses especially in Asia. As the new supply chain Risks Manager, identify risks Macintosh is going through, highlighting the eight (8) main ways such risks can be identified.

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